Summary
Howard Pang is a senior engineering manager in Waterloo with 12 years of experience building and leading cross-disciplinary software and embedded teams. He currently leads retailer engineering at Faire, shaping product-aligned engineering culture and practices, after directing engineering for a conversational AI platform that fused software and data science. His background spans low-level systems and hardware—from FPGA/MCU stacks and RTL at Per Vices to kernel and driver work at Qualcomm and Intel—giving him a rare blend of embedded, C++ systems, and modern product engineering expertise. Howard is comfortable moving between hands-on technical ownership and people leadership, having shipped latency-sensitive industrial radio hardware and production AI services. He pairs a Masters in Computer Engineering and business training with a track record of bringing research-grade ideas into production, often focusing on performance, reliability, and developer workflow improvements.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate (IB), International Baccalaureate (IB) at St. Francis Xavier High School
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo